Filter



. (No Model.)

O. PIBRGE.

FILTER.

No. 410.767. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORESTES PIERCE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

FILTER,

SPECIFICATION- Application filed March 7, 1859.*

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OREsTEs PIERCE, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Filters; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact' description of the same.

My invention relates to an improved filter which is especially applicable for cleaning water in large quantities and under such con'- ditions as are found necessary for public water-works or other bodies using large quantities of water; and it consists in the improved filter which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my filter in one form witha part broken away, showing the interior Construction. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail showing` the clanp for securing the filtering material to the frame.

'Water which is supplied to cities in large quantities from reservoirs often contains much foreign matter held in suspension, which it is desirable to remove before the water is delivered into the distributing-pipes, and for this purpose 'scree'ns of fine muslin may be employed, the water passing through them until the collection of foreign matter upon the surface necessitates their being taken out and cleaned. If the water is allowed to flow through them with any considerable current, the foreign matter becomes forced into ,the substance of the screen, so that it is difficult to clean it without a brush or ,other equivalent means.

In my invention I interpose a dam or check between the screens and the disclarge'of such a height as to produce nearly dead-water in the screen-chamber, and the infiow and outfiow of the water will be so gentle as to prevent any rush or perceptible current against the screens. I am thus enabled to use many successivo screens or thickn esses withou tcl ogging.

In the present case I have so arranged my filter as to provide a large filtering-surface, while ocoupying but a very small superficial area, and by the arrangement of the filters the water passes through them with the least possible current, so that the foreign matter may be easily washed from the surface whenever rated-from each other a sufficient distance. A

For convenience, these cylinders are of such a length as to receive the ordinary width of musliu, which is one yard, and the rings are connected together by suitable longitudinal bars, so as to retain them at the proper distance apart.

B B are rings which are fitted to surround the rings A, and they have a can looking de- Vice C, one end of which is pivoted to one end of the ring B, and the other arm being curved and slotted, so that the pin D, which is fixed in the other end of the ring B, passes through the slot, and when the lever C is moved it will draw the ends of the ring B toward each other until the ring clamps firmly upon the inner ring A. i

It willbe manifest that when the muslin or material a of the screen is rolled about the rings A A, eXtending from one to the other and being cut off to the proper length to surround the circumferenee of the same, and the rings B clanped upon the outside, the screen material will be very firnly held in place, and is at the same tine easily removable;

In the present case I have shown two similarly-constructed concentric cylinders, one of which is placed within the other in the containing tank or Vessel E, into which the water to be filtered is delivered by a pipe or any suitable means. \Vithin this tank is a central pipe F, which passes through the bottom of the tank, into which it fits so tight, by any suitable joint, as to prevent leakage, and the upper end of this pipe, which is open, is sufficiently lower than the top of the screen and tank to allow the water, when it is filled to the proper height within the tank E, to flow into the top of the pipe and be discharged from the lower end. Around the bottom of this central pipe is fitted a cone G, having a diameter at the base equal to the interior di- IOO aneter of the inner filtering-eylinder, so that when the latter is set down over it this cone will insure the cylinder standing in its proper position and concentric with the central discharge-pipe. A similar conical surface I'I surrounds the cone G and at such a distance that the outer cylinder A will be centered in a like nanner by being set into it, this outer conical surface surrounding the inner one Il in the 'form of a pan with inwardly-sloping sidcs, as shown. These cones may preferably be made as a single casting fixed to the bottom of the tank, and having a central hole, through which the pipe F passes and is properly packed. This Construction enables me to place the filtering-eylinders in the proper position whenever they have been removed for the purpose of cleaning without any especial care, as the cones will guide them to their proper position. Sand is preferably placed in the basins or depressions formed between the (ones, into which the edges of the filter-cylinders are embedded to nake a tight joint.

Upon the lower end of the discharge-pipe F, after it has passed through the bottom of the tauk, I arrange a spraying-nozzle, or I prefer at present what is known as the Barker Centrifugal Mill, consisting of two arms I, having a hub which isfitted upon the bottom of the central pipe F, these arms having holes made in them to discharge waterin opposite directions, which eauses them to ro tate slowly around the central pipe, and the water being discharged through the armsrin comparatively small quantities will be sufficiently aerated as it falls into the receiver below. For this purpose the tanks E maybe set as high above the receiver as may be found desirable.

The operation of the filter will then be as follows: The filter A being in place within the tank E, and the tank being filled `with water to the proper height, which is above the tops of the pipes F, the water will flow from all sides through the filters A with a very gentle current, and, passing into the interier, will escape through the discharge-pipe F, as previously described. VVhenever the filtering-surface becomes clogged by foreign matter, the filter is gently lifted out of the tank, and may be washed in any suitable manner and again returned to its place, very 1ittle time being lost in the operation. The two coneentric filters enable me to lift either one out, while the other remains at work. W'henever the filtering-surface becomes so dcteriorated that it will no longer serve its purpose, it is easily renewed by loosening the clamps, removing the enter rings B, and taking out the old and applying new filtering material, when it will be again ready for operation.

It will be manifest that fiat screens could be employed 'in the comparatively dead or still water tank and the overfiow and discharge take place at one end; but the cylindrical screens with numerous independent discharges produce greater screening capacity.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desirc to secure by Letters Patent, is*

An improved filter conssting of an outer tank, a casting or base-piece having an annular channel with oppositely-inelined walls forming approximately. an inner and outer conical surface, vertical filtering-cylinde's conoentric with each other and removably filtered in said channel, and a discharge-pipe passing through the center of the base-piece and iner filtering-cylinder and discharging near the top of the latter, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ORESTES PIERCE.

lVitnesses:

IL NOURSE, II. U LEE. 

